The
Mandela Effect
Alternative Worlds Meet Here
by Alanna
Ketler
First things
first: before beginning this article you may want to take this quiz to test your knowledge and memory introduce
the concept of the Mandela Effect. Don’t be surprised if you come away feeling
a little shaken up!
What if I
told you that there are actually multiple
different timelines and alternate realities all happening at
the same time as this one, the one where your conscious awareness currently
resides? What if I told you I could prove it, with the help of the Berenstain
Bears?
Yes, those
lovable little forest creatures from the memories of so many of our childhoods
are still teaching us things today, but only if we’re able to see it — stick
with me here. I have just discovered that the Berenstain Bears are part of a
huge conspiracy theory that claims someone or something has
actually gone back in time and altered history.
First of
all, I need to ask you, does something look weird about the way I have spelled
the Berenstain Bears? If it appears wrong to you, then you are not alone,
because there are literally thousands of people, including myself, who fully
remember and believe it is spelled like this: Berenstein Bears.
You may
think, as many people do, well
maybe they changed it, so what? But the fact of the matter is, it
has never been changed, at least not according to history and in this current
reality we are living in. The bears are named after the authors of the series —
Stan and Jan Berenstain — who apparently have spelled their name like this all
along.
So where
does this leave the thousands of people who swear that they remember with
perfect clarity the Berenstain bears being spelled with an ‘e’ instead of an
‘a’? Well, when I first read this I thought it was a bit strange, as I am one
of those people who is 100% certain of the alternative spelling of the name,
but I just figured it must have been changed, or somehow, as unlikely as
it seems, I was simply wrong. This was until I learned about the
Mandela Effect.
The Mandela Effect
This term
comes from an instance where a woman named Fiona Broome specifically
remembered details of Nelson Mandela passing away in prison in the 1980s and
then finding out he was in fact still alive. Upon asking her peers and many
others, she found that there was a large number of people who distinctly
remember the death of Nelson Mandela, long before his eventual death in 2013.
These people
swear that he had passed away and remember specific details about his funeral
and even a speech given by his spouse. This initial realization is what started
the Mandela phenomenon, as
since the term was coined, many other different memories of past events have
popped up.
This topic
has gained a lot of attention on Reddit
over the past few years, with many people weighing in on their various memories
of how things were and
even going so far as to provide proof of these anomalies wherever possible.
Examples of The Mandela Effect
The
following are just a few of many examples of the Mandela Effect and are listed with
the commonly remembered version of history first, then the correct (at
least in this time… and space) answer second:
- Berenstein Bears / Berenstain Bears – Popular children’s book series and television show.
- “Mirror, mirror on the wall…” / “Magic mirror on the wall…” – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- “My Mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates.” / “My Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.” – Forrest Gump
- Sex In The City / Sex And The City – HBO television Show
- There are 51 United States / There are actually only 50 States
- The location of New Zealand and Sri Lanka being located on different places on the map
- Fruit Loops / Froot Loops – Children’s cereal
- “Luke, I am your father.” / “No, I am your father.” – Star Wars
- ” And the lion shall lie down with the lamb.” / “And the Wolf shall lie down with the lamb.” – The Bible
Possible Explanations For The Mandela Effect
There are a
few different explanations that attempt to prove this theory that literally
involves the memories of thousands of people. Some say it is a theory of
parallel universes, which could explain why so many people have vivid memories
of the same thing but others do not. Another possible explanation is that
somewhere, someone has been able to go back in time and alter the past, with
some believing that perhaps there were bigger, more important reasons for going
back in time, and the little anomalies that we see today are a byproduct of
something bigger that was happening. Others have posited that someone,
somewhere travelled back in time in order to change things ever so slightly,
but enough to inadvertently change the death of Mandela and the spelling of the
Berenstain Bears, which created a ripple effect causing a percentage of the
population to remember these events differently.
In an
interview with Vice, expert in false memories Dr.
Henry L. Roediger offered his opinion on the subject, saying that people likely
just remember the Berenstein Bears with the “ein” instead of “ain” because that
is a much more common spelling, similar to Einstein, Frankenstein, and
Goldstein. He says children could have easily mixed this up. My question to
that is, how many children actually know how most last names are spelled?
I remember reading these books as I was just learning to read.
Are They Really Alternate Timelines Or Just False Memories?
Well, that
is up to you to decide. It depends on what’s more plausible to you. When I first
started learning about this theory, I must say I was quite blown away by the
examples that I was hearing, specifically the Berenst(a)ein Bears reference and
the classic line from Star Wars, “Luke, I am your Father.” But in all honesty,
what sounds more likely to you? That time travel has occurred, that the Earth
is in fact split into two separate dimensions, or that a large group of the
population just remembers some facts about certain pop culture things from the
past differently?
I leave it
up to you to decide!
Do you have
examples of anything from the past that you remember differently from how
it is portrayed now? Please share in the comments section below!
From The Last American Vagabond @ http://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/conspiracy/the-mandela-effect/
By
Cynthia Sue Larson
The Mandela Effect:
When History Just Won’t Stay Put
The
phrase “Mandela Effect” has been trending upward at an exponential rate
since July 2015,
according to Google Trends. Part of what is fueling the rapid increase in
discussion about the Mandela Effect is that some of the reporters writing
articles about the increased interest in this phenomena are experiencing it,
too. One reporter noticed that an oft-remembered cheesy love sequence between
two characters in the James Bond movie, Moonraker,
no longer exists – despite his recollection (and mine) that “Dolly has braces”!
While
many are surprised by the recent surge of interest in the “Mandela
Effect,” those of us who have been researching and writing about this
phenomenon of reality shifts and alternate histories have long been
anticipating just such a rise of interest.
What is the Mandela Effect?
The
“Mandela Effect” is named after South African anti-apartheid revolutionary
Nelson Mandela,
who became a topic of interest in the year 2010 by people noticing with
surprise that he was alive at that time – since many people remembered him
having died while incarcerated. I had published similar accounts of the dead
being observed alive again in my 1999 book, Reality Shifts,
and reported first-hand accounts on the RealityShifters website
from people all around the world noticing many dead people alive again.
Observations of dead people alive again are just one of many types of Mandela
Effects, with other notable examples including changes to song lyrics, movie
dialogue, movie scenes, physical geography, physiological anatomy, and product
names.
The
Mandela Effect is one of those things most people won’t believe in until it
happens to them. Like falling in love or going through heartbreak, the Mandela
Effect is something you have to experience in order to fully embrace. And even
then, it often takes more than one or two experiences to break through the
resistance most of us have to accepting the existence of something that
fundamentally challenges our unspoken foundational assumption — that facts
and historical events don’t change. This perceptual bias has been poetically
expressed in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.”
When
we encounter evidence indicating that in fact, history has changed – it feels
shocking to discover some of the lines have been canceled
and washed out! We seem to be approaching ‘tipping point’ where it’s
getting harder for scoffers to say there’s no such thing as the Mandela Effect
/ reality shifts / alternate histories. The term “Mandela Effect” originated
with blogger Fiona Broome in 2010 after she attended a conference where
many people talked with her about remembering how Nelson Mandela had died many
years earlier – though official recorded history at that time indicated no such
thing had actually occurred.
Thanks
to articles written by some Mandela Effect experiencers, the Mandela Effect
shows evidence of increasing in popular awareness. Mandela Effect articles have
been written by experiencers including the Lewiston
Sun Journal’s Mark LaFlamme (“The Mandela Effect is Freaking Me Out”) who noticed a
change on which side of his father he’s standing by in an old family
photo; the New Zealand
Herald’s Karl Puschmann (“Berenstein or Berenstain? The Riddle Making Book Lovers Mad”)
who is certain the popular children’s books ought to be spelled “Berenstein”
and not the way they’ve supposedly ‘always been spelled’ as Berenstain; and San Diego City Beat’s Tom
Siebert (“Technology and Memory Down the Rabbit Hole”) who noticed a
change to a memorable scene in a James Bond movie, Moonraker, in which the girl with the braces
who fell in love with another character with shining teeth no longer has
braces. I watched The James Bond film Moonraker
several times while in college, and also remember the memorable scene in which
the blonde girl named “Dolly” who wears glasses and braids shares a cheesy
moment with Richard Kiels’ character, “Jaws”, when they notice how his shiny
teeth complement the shiny braces on her teeth. Except now, she doesn’t
have any braces on her teeth.
Taken
individually – the way such observations of discrepancies between what we
remember and recorded historical evidence have always been noted up until now –
a single person feeling unsettled by noticing such a change would have been
chalked up to their having made some kind of cognitive error. But, when
such “mis-remembered” recollections are considered collectively, we are presented with the
possibility that we are witnessing collectively agreed-upon awareness of differently
remembered historical facts that we can start to take notice of.
Some scoffers have leapt to the
conclusion that Mandela Effect experiencers who are noticing long-familiar
words in movies, TV shows, books, and products are most likely suddenly
sharing ‘false memories’, due to the fact that human memories are not fully
reliable. However such an explanation allows us to leave unquestioned some old
assumptions that have quietly started to crumble at their very foundations
since the advent of quantum physics just over a hundred years ago. While
quantum physics shows us there can be no such thing as an objective observer,
and now that two thirds of physicists recently surveyed agree that you and I
and everything that exists does so in a superposition
of states, we clearly need to revise both our scientific methodology and our
assumptions about reality.
Superposition: The principle of
superposition claims that while we do not know what the state of any object is,
it is actually in all possible states simultaneously, as long as we don’t look
to check. It is the measurement itself that causes the object to be limited to
a single possibility. [source]
While I agree with the observation that human
memories often do not match current historical records, it’s clear
that stopping the thought process regarding the Mandela Effect at that
point is premature, and does not match what we are learning about the
primacy of quantum logic in the natural world.
I’ve been researching this phenomena since
the 1990s. It was originally called “reality shifts”, and first appeared in
print in the book “Future
Memory” by PMH Atwater to describe common (yet strange) experiences that
near-death experiencers frequently have. I have been reporting on
individual recollections of alternate histories involving everything from
changes in books, to dead people alive again, to changes in the way motor
memory works since 1999, in the earliest edition of my first book on this
subject, Reality Shifts: When
Consciousness Changes the Physical World, and in my free
monthly Realityshifters
ezine. I’m currently pursuing this Mandela Effect / reality shift topic in
interviews with experts in the fields of quantum biology (such as Johnjoe
McFadden), quantum cognition (such as Jerome Busemeyer), and quantum cosmology
(such as Yasunori Nomura) on my blog and “Living
the Quantum Dream” radio show. What I’m noticing is that this
phenomenon appears to not be new, but rather we have reached a point in society
where for the first time we are able to share memories with others that are
different from the collective whole – and sometimes our memories show the same
kind of alternate pasts that physicists such as Stephen Hawking have told us
exist.
When we consider the matter of
“confabulation” and “false recollections” at this dawning of the new
Quantum Age, we see that we may eventually call such things “alternate
recollections,” in recognition of awareness of the fact that we know that
each and every one of us exists in a superimposed state, with access to many
possible alternate histories, presents, and futures. The idea that the many
worlds of quantum physics might be one and the same as the multiverse has been
proposed by such esteemed physicists as Dr. Yasunori Nomura and Dr. Raphael
Bousso of UC Berkeley, and increasing numbers of scientists are feeling
optimistic that we might yet find evidence that we indeed live in a multiverse.
Finding
Evidence of Many Worlds in Alternate Histories
There
is an exciting human side to the subject of alternate histories and parallel
worlds.
While we don’t yet have technology to show photos from your past with evidence
of parallel universes impinging on the very fabric of reality since the day you
were born, we can look to see what kinds of evidence we are able to
collect more easily. If we were feeling the effects of parallel universes, we
would expect to occasionally notice that history doesn’t stay put.
Occasionally, we’d have very different ideas of what happened than we’ve had
before, or than others have had before. What would such alternate histories be
like?
Dr.
Robert A. Burton recounts a fascinating experience in his book, “On Being Certain: Believing You
Are Right Even When You’re Not”, of attending a medical school reunion
dinner in which conversation turned to where people were when they heard the
news that Kennedy was assassinated. Burton and his classmates had all been in
their second year of medical school, attending similar classes and hanging out
together. An argument broke out among the reunion attendees as a urologist
thought they were all at lunch, an internist remembered they’d been in the lab,
and a pathologist remembered being at a pub down the street from the med
center. With classmates turning to Burton to be the tie-breaker, setting
history straight, the pathologist and urologist both agreed on one thing as
they announced in unison, “Everyone
remembers the Kennedy assassination.”
If
this was the first time such differences of memory related to significant
events occurred, we might dismiss it as a humorous aside. But the fact of the
matter is that researchers are increasingly becoming aware of what they call
“false recollections.” With the advent of the Quantum Age, we may eventually
call them “alternate recollections,” indicating awareness of the fact that we
know that each and every one of us exists in a superimposed state, with access
to many possible alternate histories, presents, and futures.
Ulric
Neisser and Nicole Harsch conducted studies of Emory University students’
accuracy of recollections of events at the time of the Challenger space shuttle
explosion, starting by collecting first-hand accounts from 106 students the day
after the disaster detailing how they’d heard of the explosion, what
they’d been doing at the time, where they were, and how they felt. The
researchers followed up with the same students two and a half years later, and
were startled to find that students achieved a mean score of 2.95 compared to a
perfect score of 7. Less than 10% of the students were able to exactly match
their original recollection of events, and over half of the students got a
score less than 2.
The
most noteworthy findings in this “flashbulb” memory study were student
reactions when confronted with conflicting accounts. Many students persisted in
confidently claiming that their current memories of events were completely
accurate, even when confronted with their own hand-written journal entries. One
student summed up what happened succinctly:
It’s
important to note that in this new Quantum Age, such cases of alternate
histories are to be expected. They provide evidence of the superposition of
states that we and everything around us exists within, so we can expect to
occasionally see documented records from the past that differ from what we
recall. In the Quantum Age, we understand that seeing our own handwritten notes
that aren’t at all what we remember is one way that alternate histories become
known.
Physicists Agree: You’re in a
Superposition of States
When
we understand that our belief structures are creations of our minds, we start noticing
how varied individual belief structures can be from person to person. What one
person considers to be realistic and matter-of-fact might seem outrageously
peculiar to another. Even the idea that other people actually see images in
their minds may seem outlandish to some people, let alone what those people
see. When enough people shift their belief structures to look at the world in
fresh, new ways, cultural paradigms shift.
Staying
current with new scientific findings can help. While most non-physicists would
likely see a solid physical object such as a table or a chair as only what it
currently appears to be, a remarkable 2/3 majority of physicists interviewed in
2011 stated they believe that all objects can exist in superimposed states —
much the way we know quantum ‘particles’ exist as energetic probabilities as much as
physical particles we can measure and observe. University of Portland, Oregon,
physics professor Maximilian Schlosshauer summarized this remarkable agreement
thus:
“More than two-thirds believed that there is no
fundamental limit to quantum theory — that it should be possible for objects,
no matter how big, to be prepared in quantum superpositions like Schrodinger’s
cat. So the era where quantum theory was associated only with the atomic realm
appears finally over.”
A Scientific Basis for
Instantaneous Adaptation in Stressful Times
The scientific assumption that organisms
experienced random mutations was seriously shaken by Harvard professor John Forster
Cairns 1988 proposal that the organisms themselves were preferentially
producing beneficial mutations. Cairns conducted experiments with E. coli
bacteria that demonstrated that in times of stress, when the bacteria were
starved from food they were capable of digesting, they made “adaptive
mutations” to be able to receive nutritive sustenance from a food source they’d
never been able to consume before. This phenomenon in which E. coli mutated
exactly the most optimal genes precisely when that mutation was required had no
known basis nor explanation from established theories in genetics – and indeed seemed
to contradict one of the central dogmas of molecular biology, that information
only flows in one direction during transcription from DNA out to proteins to a
cellular organism environment. John Cairns and Julie Overbaugh and others
proposed a mechanism that what might be happening is that “the cell could produce a highly
variable set of mRNA molecules and then reverse-transcribe the one that made
the best protein.”
If reverse-engineering mutations by bacteria
in times of starvation so they can start digesting lactose sounds crazy, it
might help to know there exists a similar proven case of successful quantum
biological adaptation: photosynthesis. Those who expect modern human
technology to be faster and more efficient than the rustic natural world are quite
surprised to learn that our best photovoltaic cells are only 20% efficient,
compared with photosynthesizing plants and bacteria that regularly achieve 95%
efficiency rates for transforming sunlight into energy. Plants have existed on
Earth for millions of years, so it’s not too surprising to find that their
natural process of photosynthesis likely utilizes quantum coherence to speed
things up. In decades past, scientists believed that excited electrons carried
energy randomly through photosynthetic systems in plants, hopping from one
molecule to the next. More modern measurements of energy in the new field of
quantum biology studying photosynthesizing plants indicates something much more
efficient is going on. What appears to be happening is that electrons take
advantage of the fact that energy can move not just in the material form, but
in pure energy form, too, and entire systems of molecules can become entangled
to allow the formation of a coherent wave that tries out different pathways
simultaneously, until the most efficient route is very quickly determined.
The quantum magic happens in each of a photosynthetic cell’s millions of
antenna proteins that are surprisingly efficient and robust at routing energy
with very little lost in transit.
University
of Toronto biophysicist Greg Scholes published his findings of room-temperature
quantum coherence behavior in common marine algae in Nature. Scholes describes
an analogy of driving home through rush hour traffic to explain what these
cells are doing:
Advantages of experiencing alternate realities
My point is that everyone is
experiencing reality shifts that usually get brushed aside with
the assumption (in most social settings) being that there has been
confusion or misperception, with both parties assuming the other has made some
kind of mental mistake. The reason I raise the topic of flashbulb memories in
my book, Quantum Jumps, is
to share the extraordinary findings of those researchers who asked college
freshmen to record their hand-written accounts of the event, then recall
it some time later. Thanks to this research and stunning placebo effect
results, we now have an opportunity to acknowledge that rather than explaining
such reality shifts away as ‘memory lapses’ or confusion, we have always been
witnessing the way quantum phenomena occurs at ALL levels of reality, and not
only below the so-called “von Neumann cut.” I have a sense that research in
these fields is about to lead us to a new level of awareness that facts can
change – yet understanding of our true identity as being consciousness can help
us best find our way forward in experiencing various possible realities.
What Would You Notice if You’re in a
Superposition of States?
What
would it feel like to exist in a superposition of states? How could you tell?
You might notice things like: markedly different childhood memories from your
siblings; spontaneous or speedy healing from illness or injury; different movie
dialogue, writing in books, product names, song lyrics, TV shows, and
celebrities alive again after being reported dead. In fact, this is precisely
what people are reporting with such commonly recognized examples as:
• “Berenstein Bears
vs. Berenstain
Bears (children’s book)
• The Queen from Snow White says “Mirror mirror on the wall”
vs. “Magic mirror
on the wall”. (from Snow White)
• Mr. Rogers sings “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood” vs.
“It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood”.
(from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood)
• Darth Vader says to Luke Skywalker, “Luke, I am your father”
vs. “No, I
am your father”. (from Star Wars)
• Forrest Gump says “Mama always said, ‘Life is like a box of
chocolates’” vs. “Mama always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates’.” (from
Forrest Gump)
• “We’re
going to need a bigger boat” vs. “You’re going
to need a bigger boat”. (from Jaws)
Mandela Effect Reports on
the Rise
In
addition to some of these commonly reported shared experiences of alternate
histories,
some people are also remembering other things differently, such as: “If
you build it, they will come” instead of now, “If you build it, he will come” (from Field of Dreams)
and “Jiffy” peanut butter instead of “Jif.” As increasing numbers of
honest reporters and authors start running into their own experiences with the
Mandela Effect – both the private experiences that only they recognize, and the
more publicly shared varieties – we will continue the growing conversation
about the Mandela Effect, and why increasing numbers of people are noticing it
now.
And
in the meantime, I recommend that you keep asking “How good can it get?” to
harness imagination and your ability to provide yourself with self-guidance from
your highest levels of consciousness. Asking this question helps ensure we
are honoring a longer-term, fuller and more harmoniously interconnected
optimal experience. We can trust our highest, largest, most comprehensive
levels of consciousness, and in so doing we will continue to experience
different pasts and instantaneous transformations as we move
through these stressful times to more optimal realities.
About
The Author:
Cynthia Sue
Larson (a.k.a. “The
Quantum Optimist”) is a best-selling author and life coach who
helps talented people struggling with unsatisfying lives find love, meaning,
and prosperity. Cynthia has a degree in Physics from UC Berkeley, and practices
and teaches meditation and martial arts. She has been featured in numerous
shows including the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, and BBC. Endorsed by
Dr. Larry Dossey, Fred Alan Wolf, and Stanley Krippner, Cynthia Sue Larson’s
newest book, Quantum
Jumps: The Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity, describes
the science of instantaneous transformation emerging from the convergence of
recent research findings in Physics, Biology, and Psychology.
From Wake Up World
@ http://wakeup-world.com/2016/08/13/the-amazing-rise-of-the-mandela-effect/
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